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TIL that "Chunk" from The Goonies is now an entertainment lawyer

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vmwr TIL that the first successful company to market chow mein in the United States was founded by the son of Italian immigrants who used Italian spices in his recipe. President Ford commented, “What could be more American than a business built on a good Italian recipe for chop suey?“
Eg110 TIL that in 1989, a pilot misunderstood a flight plan, resulting in the plane crashing in the Amazon jungle.
b687p TIL about the GIUK Gap, a strategic naval choke point in the north Atlantic.
j6MeM TIL about Open Insulin Foundation, a team of biohackers working to make insulin accessible to everyone via an open source small scale manufacturing model. Their work started in 2016 with a $16k crowdfund, and now they are transitioning into a 501(c)(3).
69gVl TIL in Japan and Korea there is a strong belief that blood type is linked to personality.